If you do well, wil not your countenance be lifted up? And if you do not do well, sin is crouching at the door; and its desire is for you, but you must master it"The first of many warnings about the danger of sin, and the necessity of fighting it.
In the very next verse, Cain lost that fight... no, that's not right. Cain didn't lose it, he surrendered to it. That's what we always do, isn't it? We don't lose the battle, we can't. If this is a battle, then we have God and Christ right there next to us in the trenches, and can't lose. But we just get up and surrender. Maybe for the Jews it was a real battle, but that battle is now ours to lose.
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